Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Antarctica

Greetings, For Antartica WP I added progression, pie graph, rainbow; added wikilinks "Quality operations" and "Popular pages". JoeNMLC (talk) 14:43, 23 July 2020 (UTC)

Hi! Not sure if this is the right place to ask but thought I'd give it a shot! I've been editing the page for the Agreed Measures and was looking for any help/advice to get this article upgraded from a stub to C-class! Any advice would be extremely appreciated! Thanks Bambixie (talk) 06:35, 17 May 2021 (UTC)

Hello all. I drafted two new navboxes for geographical articles on Antarctica, one for West Antarctica, the other for East Antarctica. I primarily used the information presented in the Geography of Antarctica article. I invite the members of the project to review them in my user space and comment here. I think it's a step up from the 2013 Geography of Antarctica navbox, which isn't very useful at this point, I think. If people think those new ones may be useful, I'll revise them and start to paste them on a few hundred pages...

Ideally, one such navbox should exist for each area to list mountains, glaciers and such, but that would be a herculean task. Robincantin (talk) 02:34, 11 July 2021 (UTC)

A number of Antarctic exploration-related articles were created by Brianboulton back in 2019, who was a long-time contributor on this topic before they passed away. Many are quite high quality, for example Australasian Antarctic Expedition later became an FA. If anyone is interested, it might be good project to re-assess their quality status, and perhaps nominate them for GA or FA assessment if applicable. The most developed articles in this regard are:

• List of Antarctic exploration ships from the Heroic Age, 1897–1922
• Japanese Antarctic Expedition
  • Nobu Shirase
• Second German Antarctic Expedition
  • Deutschland (1905)
  • Felix König
  • Wilhelm Filchner
• Proposed Anglo-Swedish Antarctic Expedition 1915–20
• Joseph Foster Stackhouse

Best, CMD (talk) 13:40, 18 July 2021 (UTC)

Since 6 August, I am working Cleanup for Antarctica Orphan articles. At Queen Maud Land article, the "See also" section that was accumulating articles was reverted. Wondering if Ok to place these articles as a "Features" subsection under "Geography" heading?

I did similar at Marie Byrd Land Geography section. Because I've already updated hundreds of articles with "See also" section titles, it will be a major task to go back & rename all those SA to "Features" (which I am willing to do) and hoping to reach a concensus here first. Please let me know thoughts & opinions before I continue. Thanks. JoeNMLC (talk) 20:50, 19 August 2021 (UTC)

Some time-sensitive help is needed for Endurance (1912 ship) to get it ready for ITN given the discovery of the wreck. Best, {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 02:39, 11 March 2022 (UTC)

I'm copyediting Antarctica for the GOCE May drive and the article is inconsistent on whether it is capitalized or lowercase (and not just between the magnetic and geologic south pole). I'd like to be able to at least make it consistent?

I just checked and apparently the geologic South Pole is capitalized in its article, but not in Antarctica, and the opposite is for the magnetic.

Asparagusus (talk) 14:51, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

An article that you have been involved in editing—Antarctic—has been proposed for merging with another article. If you are interested, please participate in the merger discussion. Thank you. Chidgk1 (talk) 09:42, 7 May 2022 (UTC)

Seeking consensus on which flag to use for Template:Country data Antarctica. Please discuss at Talk:Flag of Antarctica#RFC on main flag used in the country data template if interested. Federalwafer (talk) 04:32, 21 August 2022 (UTC)

I've been adding the new articles I create to the appropriate section of the project page, but I've noticed I'm the only one who's added anything in the last 7 years. Am I using it incorrectly? I assume I'm not the only person who's created new Antarctica articles since 2015. Federalwafer (talk) 14:17, 23 August 2022 (UTC)

There are several hundred mountain ranges in Antarctica, with several thousand peaks. Most of the peaks have a stub article copied from GNIS, which in turn copies from the public domain Alberts, Fred G., ed. (1995), Geographic Names of the Antarctic (PDF) (2 ed.).

There is a steady trickle of AfDs for these peaks, most of which are not particularly notable. They are just high points in a ridge or massif. But the stubs do give some information on the location, height, when it was explored, where the name came from. It seems worth preserving, if not as a stand-alone article then as a section in a parent like Gustav Bull Mountains. This is what WP:GEONATURAL suggests.

Would there be any point launching a project to make sure all articles on mountain ranges have sections on each of their component mountains, which can be added by a simple cut-and-paste job, and then somehow advertise that instead of starting more AfDs editors should just redirect stubs to the parent article section? Comments, Ideas? Aymatth2 (talk) 23:18, 2 December 2023 (UTC)

I have nominated Ernest Shackleton for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" in regards to the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Z1720 (talk) 16:20, 16 December 2023 (UTC)